Driver Who Rammed Coronado Police Cars Arrested

CORONADO, CA — A 26-year-old Santee man who allegedly rammed two Coronado police cars and hit a National City police dog with a wrench was arrested on several charges, according to police and media reports.

A woman called 911 about her son who was sitting in his van Wednesday night on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, police told the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Coronado police responded, and when they found the man, he fled and drove into an apartment complex parking lot on Second Street in Coronado, the paper said.

He wouldn't come out of his van and repeatedly backed it up into two Coronado patrol cars blocking the exit, before he drove onto the complex's pathways, the Union-Tribune reported.

Police used spike strips to disable his van and stop him a few blocks away, but they said he still wouldn't comply and threw objects at the officers.

National City police -- who had arrived to assist along with California Highway Patrol and San Diego city police -- sicced a police dog on the man, who hit the animal with a wrench, according to the U-T.

Police then fired pepper-spray balls at him and he eventually surrendered, was arrested and taken to a hospital.

The man faces charges of suspicion of driving under the influence, evading, resisting arrest, assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and firefighter, felony vandalism and willfully harming a peace officer canine, police said.

— City News Service